Inflammatory bowel diseases: fertility, pregnancy, labor

Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) including ulcerous colitis (UC) and Crohn’s disease (CD) are widely spread among young persons and therefore there are many questions from both patients and specialists regarding management tactics for this category of patients. The paper presents the main items of The Second European Consensus on Reproduction and Pregnancy in Patients with IBD including the questions of fertility, optimization of pregnancy planning, characteristic features of its course, labor and postpartum period.